Water Treatment Plant Meeting Oratia Settlers Hall This Tuesday 21 Feb, 6pm. We need your support.
Watercare is planning to update it’s infrastructure out west including a new water treatment plant. One proposed site is local at 130 Parker Road. Watercare are hosting a public drop-in information session where you can meet Watercare staff and talk through the proposals in detail, answer any questions and also will be taking note […]
Oratia – Apple of your eye
We’re Featured in the Herald! A snippet below and full story here. NZ Herald: Oratia beauty really sums up this great family friendly place with its many laid-back features, writes Hannah Sperber. NEED TO KNOW Project Twin Streams’ Oratia walk and cycleway is next to 102 Parrs Cross […]
Oratia Features in TV One’s Neighbourhood Series This Sunday At 11am
Oratia, Sunday 7 September, 11am on TV One August 31 in Oratia, New Zealand This week Italian born Alessandra Zecchini shows us around her neighbourhood – Oratia a rural community of about two and a half thousand lucky souls on the border between Auckland’s city sprawl and the wild forests and beaches of the West […]
16k Surprise for Oratia
Edit: This project was in the Agenda but was not approved . It was deferred. 8/9/14 Well there was sweet little in this years budget for Oratia , except an unexpected surprise win of $16.5 k for Oratia’s Kaurimu Stream Restoration. (The stream that runs along by the Oratia Bowling club.) Apparently there is a group […]
Oratia Locals in the Western Leader
Western Leader Digital Edition. Mate Marinovich, writes to the editor to share his thinking on Auckland Council’s move from the Town Hall ….. And Murray Gray (ex Oratia Local) is busy on the Going West Books and Wrtiers Festival. goingwestfest.co.nz
Award-winning winery and farmers’ market on the Market
Article from the NZ Herald. A boutique winery and a local farmers’ market in Oratia, Waitakere, is for sale as a going concern business and freehold property for the first time since it was developed from an apple orchard. “Artisan Wines is a fully functioning and award-winning vineyard,” says David Savery, of NAI Harcourts Henderson […]
Foothill Foodies Take Note. Council Test Kitchen for hire. Article from Idealog.
Food and beverage makes up more than half of our exports and we export four times the amount of food as Japan. And for all the talk about being too reliant on a commodity economy, you have to admit it’s too much of a monster to stop now. Andy Kenworthy peeks inside Auckland’s FoodBowl innovation […]
Oratia Gateway Signs Please!
t the Waitakere Ranges Local Board December Meeting, Secretary, Penny Sparks , spoke on behalf of the Oratia Ratepayers & Residents requesting Gateway Signage for Oratia. At last years AGM the Oratia R&R highlighted the lack of visual identity for Oratia village. The town’s main sign used to be the signwriting on the Oratia Settlers […]
Oratia Jungle Festival – 1st March
Local Job Opportunity: Arts and Culture Venues Manager Job at Lopdell Precinct
A couple of interesting local jobs advertised in the Western Leader. Also a feature in the Western Leader on TONIGHT’S film club movie Gardening with Soul at the Settlers Hall 7.15 $12 for Adults $10 for Seniors (includes hot drink and a biscuit).